David Faulkner

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It isn’t a coincidence that two decades after the Genovese trading colony of Kaffa fell to the Ottomans, Christopher Columbus—himself a Genovese sailor—reached North America. What is more, according to Mikhail the colonization of the Americas was a response to the realization that the Holy Land was irretrievably lost.
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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